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Posted Wed Jul 16 2008: from New Scientist:
When acquiring mosquito-borne disease is a good thing http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1216240751
 "With 50 million cases in the tropics each year, dengue fever is humanity's most common insect-borne viral infection. Killing the mosquitoes that carry it is the only way to fight it, but now a large-scale survey in Thailand has revealed that this can make the deadliest form of dengue more prevalent. Known as "breakbone fever", dengue is painful but normally not fatal the first time around ... the real threat is the second infection....causing a potentially fatal disease called dengue haemorrhagic fever. DHF kills 12,000 people a year, mainly children.
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